Visual DreamProver 1.0 is a new theorem-proving program, developed in LPA Win-Prolog 4.6, with multi-coloured graphics displays of (potentially unlimited) Logic expressions, theorem proofs and deductions in Multiple Form Logic, in the primary algebra of “Laws of Form“, in Boolean Algebra and in a variety of other logic systems (to a large extent used-defined). Here is an animated GIF slide-show of DreamProver’s visual display. It offers unlimited control of size, colour, shape and content for all Logic Expressions and all theorem proofs:

(Click on this image for a better quality animated GIF, of size 450Kb)

Although DreamProver is still at the “alpha stage“, I decided to publish a preliminary first report about its features and capabilities, to a large extent already working, to a lesser extent requiring minor debugging and final extensions, before release. I am also doing this for the benefit (and amusement) of a friendly innovative company: “Logic Programming Associates Ltd”, where I worked for a short pleasant period of a few weeks, some years ago (in 2001). LPA are the creators of the LPA Win-Prolog compiler. I hope that LPA continues a long tradition of innovative success through the latest version of their compiler, which also has MIDI (music) programming capabilities (featured in a recent posting, here).

I am also… officially requesting, after the release of DreamProver (and the ensuing free promotion of LPA’s amazing compiler) a small… personal favour: -A legitimate free copy of their newest LPA Win-Prolog 4.7 compiler! 🙂 (as my license for using version 4.6 ends on the last day of 2007).

DreamProver is particularly suited for the display of so-called “Boundary Logic Systems” (first created by George Spencer Brown in “Laws of Form” and then extended by various people in various ways – including my own “Multiple Form Logic” system). However, its (almost unlimited) potential allows the display of many other logic systems, including Parse-Trees of used-defined grammars, since both the shapes and the data-structures they represent can be redefined “on the fly”. In the display shown above, only a small example of a logic expression is used, mainly to demonstrate graphics capabilities. However, if -for example- the Grammar of a subset of English is used, instead of a Logic Expression, the ensuing graphic display of coloured shapes resembles a tree which is symmetric with respect to a “horizon” line in the middle.

The data-structure for this unusual kind of tree-representation is relatively simple, straight-forward and documented (in the final release of DreamProver). It is separate from the internal Logic representation but related to it through specific user-defined rules: Both the “productions” and the “leaves” of such a grammar tree are user-defined in shape and content. The only difference between other kinds of systems and those built-in (as regards the current first version of DreamProver) is that the other systems do not include internal Proof Algorithms and automated deductions, and can only be fed from the results of such processes (through external third-party software). Before final release it is hoped that the input-expressions in other systems are expressed in standard XML, so as to make the software useful to almost any researcher or developer, in any topic that includes parsed tree-expressions. The ultimate goal is also to develop a kind of Universal DreamProver library, available under a professional license to developers for a small fee (that might help sustain this work and pay for the effort of future upgrades). However, the current version of DreamProver is likely to appear as Open Source in the near future. Keep in touch!